WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2007 —Pardalis, Inc. announced today that a pending patent application has been published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under US Patent Application #20070061360. The application is entitled the ‘Common point authoring system for the complex sharing of hierarchically authored data objects in a distribution chain’, and is the third patent filed by Pardalis with the USPTO since August, 2001.
The published patent application continues the claims issued for Pardalis' Common Point Authoring™ system in two earlier patents. Pardalis received issuance from the USPTO in 2003 of its parent patent, US Patent #6,671,696, entitled ‘Informational object authoring and distribution system’. Pardalis received issuance from the USPTO in 2006 of its second patent, US Patent #7,136,869, entitled ‘Common point authoring system for tracking and authenticating objects in a distribution chain’.
“The sharing of hierarchically constructed – and granularly owned – informational objects along complex supply chains is a natural next step for Pardalis’ growing foundation of intellectual property,” said Steve Holcombe, Pardalis’ CEO. “The published patent application both broadens and deepens our first two patents which have now been critically distinguished from patents held by Microsoft, IBM, SAP AG, and Xerox.”
“Small companies like Pardalis can have an advantage over large companies in thinking ‘outside the box’,” said Holcombe. “What has set us apart from other technology companies is the readiness to understand that people want to bank and use their information like they bank and use their money. We are also learning tremendously from the real world application of the Common Point Authoring™ system as a web service. And we are fortunate to have the outstanding legal services of patent attorney James Graziano of Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, D.C. This has all made for a now proven formula for success in innovating new methods for granular information ownership - a term we have coined - and then securing the patents for those methods.”
Filings relevant to Pardalis' USPTO issued patents are also being pursued under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in Australia (Notice of Acceptance issued), Brazil, Canada, China (Notice of Completion of Formalities for Patent Register issued), Europe, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, and New Zealand (patent issued).
“Pardalis’ Common Point Authoring™ system represents a paradigm shift in the application of object-oriented programming to provide previously unseen means for granular information ownership,” Holcombe said. “More detailed information is available in our recent white paper, Banking on Granular Information Ownership, retrievable from Pardalis’ homepage.”
About Pardalis, Inc.
Pardalis' mission is to promote the sharing of confidential, trustworthy and traceable data along complex and poorly coordinated supply chains with innovative Common Point Authoring™ methods for protecting the granular ownership rights of information producers. For more information, call 877-OWN-DATA or visit http://www.pardalis.com.